In the early years of Riverside County, special deputies were used regionally to supplement the Sheriff’s Office and provide law enforcement in the outlying areas of the county. In 1895, two years after Riverside County was incorporated, the hills were still the wild west with men wearing gun belts and pistols, people traveling on horseback and disagreements settled with six-shooters.Also in 1895, a Native American man from the Cahuilla area, later to be known as Anza, was working as a Riverside County Special Deputy Sheriff in the region. This man, Frank Hamilton, acted as a law enforcement officer for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office in the areas surrounding the Cahuilla and Ramona Reservations, including the town of San Jacinto. Hamilton had family ties to both reservations
